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California Wheat and Barley Grower Ken Lederer, 44, waxes lyrical about the spiritual rewards of farming: "When you see all your work out there on the ground, dependent on so many things you can't control, like the frost, the bugs and the rain, you begin to appreciate how small
...immigrants: "They'll run cars through it or put a cutting torch to it." Or simply walk around it. Mexican Americans regard the fence as insulting. Said Vilma Martinez, president of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "With all due respect to Robert Frost, good fences do not make good neighbors...
...gnarled, 89-year-old man with a face like Robert Frost's, Gordon MacLean of South Portland, Me., looks exactly like what he is, one of the country's foremost practitioners of an ancient and mysterious art that science sneers at and country people swear by. He is a dowser. As people all over the back hills of Vermont will tell you, dowsers can find water in the ground when almost no one else can-literally at the drop of a forked branch or the twist of a metal rod. No one knows how dowsing works, if indeed...
...lessons working for a succession of California vintners and picked up the scientific nuances by studying and teaching oenology at California colleges. Don't give in to adversity, he adds. In his first year on his own, he was struck by an almost biblical series of plagues: early frost, freakish heat, then hepatitis. Friends in the valley pitched in to help him pick and press his crop. "You know," he muses, "people like to see you succeed. People like to see a family working together...
...compassionate and even sentimental people with a kind of friendly compulsion to forgive, they would be disposed to accept Nixon, to leave the past for historians to sort out. But some token of repentance seems to be an informal condition for that. Nixon, in his soft avowal during the Frost interviews that "I let the American people down" and some gentle self-accusations in his memoirs, appears to have traveled as far as he psychologically can toward contrition. It is possible that he will never forgive either the enemies who brought him low, or himself (those given to psychohistory would...